We lack Patriot missiles. There were none at all near one of cities - Zelenskyy
President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that Ukraine lacks missiles for Patriot air defense systems.
He said this during a press conference, Censor.NET reports.
"When they said that there were no troops on the territory of Ukraine, but they have ships and air defense. The US has this air defense. Can we get 20 air defense systems? That would be enough. We don't need to maintain them, we have our own people, we will train them. Can we get licenses? Not even missiles, but licenses to produce missiles for Patriot.
We count every day... I apologize. 3-5 am, when the commander calls me and says: "We are near this city, under this city, we have no missiles for Patriot systems. That's it, we're out of them." He says there are eight missiles coming but no missiles for air defense systems. I think this is wrong. These are the things that make everyone nervous," he explained.
According to Zelenskyy, he asked US representatives what they could provide as security guarantees.
"You don't want to provide troops, you don't want NATO. Can we get enough Patriot systems?" he added.
